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Courtesy: Alla Bossart (21.06.2007)Our date code Askoldova great film directed by “Commissar” under 75 years. 75 years Askoldovu Alexander. Semimythical great film director sent me […]

USSR, Gor’kii Film Studio, 1967 (released 1987)B&W, 105 minutesIn Russian with English subtitlesDirector and Screenwriter: Aleksandr Askol’dovBased on: Vasilii Grossman’s “In the Town of Berdichev”Cinematography: […]

Courtesy: Walter Goodman (July 17th,1988) LEAD: Add ”Commissar” to the remarkable series of Soviet movies that has been finding its way West after many years […]

68 min., 11 r., 2998 m., W.s. Dir.- Alexander Askoldov.Cast: N.Mordukova, R.Bykov, R.Nedashkovskaya, V.Shukshin, L.Volynskaya, O.Koberidze, L.Reutov. For a filmmaker in the United States, “making […]

Courtesy: Wikipedia Rubinstein’s portrait by Ilya Repin. Bust on the grave of Anton Rubinstein on Tikhvin Cemetery in Saint Petersburg Rubinstein’s portrait by Ilya Repin. […]

Courtesy: David Conway (1) “To the Jews I’m a Christian, to the Christians a Jew; to the Russians I’m a German, to the Germans a […]

 Astro-Rayological Interpretation & Charts Quotes     –        Biography–           Images and Physiognomic Interpretation(Courtesy: Michael D. Robbins) I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing […]

(Courtesy: Wikipedia) Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (Russian: Владимир Самойлович Горовиц, Vladimir Samojlovič Gorovits; Ukrainian: Володимир Самійлович Горовиць, Volodymyr Samiilovych Horovyts) (1 October 1903 – 5 November 1989 ) was a Russian-american […]

Courtesy: Glenn Plaskin   NOBODY is going to argue against the proposition that Vladimir Horowitz is one of today’s two super-superstars of music. The other […]